28 March 2020: We Have An Ice Out Contest Winner!

Finally! David Hodsdon has proclaimed this year’s ice out date to be March 27th. That was the day when all the ice was completely gone from the coves and inlets around the lake. That makes Linda Gallion (picture at left, from last year’s Annual Meeting) the winner of our 2020 Ice Out Contest! Her’s was the closest guess (March 24th) without going over. Linda has been a long time CLA member and served as Treasurer for ten years from 2005 to 2015. Congratulations Linda! Hope you enjoy your tee shirt! Many thanks to all who participated in our first Clary Lake Ice Out Contest. Here are their guesses:

2020 Ice Out Contest Guesses

Ice Out was determined to be March 27th. The closest guess wins!

Name

Guess

Jane Chase

03/14/20

Rick Gallion

03/14/20

Jack Holland

03/17/20

June M. Lordi

03/23/20

Linda Gallion

03/24/20

ICE OUT:

03/27/2020

Lee Prager

03/28/20

Paul Devlin

03/28/20

Steve Cowles

03/29/20

Malcolm B

03/29/20

David Knight

04/01/20

Carolyn Curtis

04/02/20

Gareth Bowen

04/03/20

Leslie Gillette

04/04/20

Terry Crummett

04/07/20

Kate Seba

04/09/20

Arlene Wing

04/12/20

Karen Stutzer

04/14/20

Dan Burns

04/16/20

If you think it took a longer than usual for the lake to become ice-free this year it is because it did! I don’t think the ice was really ready to melt off, but a heavy rain event on March 13th which dropped 1.20 inches of rain followed by strong winds the next day got rid of a lot of ice on the north side of the lake. There were actually people ice fishing the previous weekend. After that initial melt-off, the ice seemed to take forever to melt out of the coves on the south side, and down by the boat launch.